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No. 591,035. Patented Oct. 5,1897.

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GEORGE DOI-IERTY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SCRUBBlNG-PAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 591,035, dated October 5, 1897.

Application filed May 15, 1897, Serial No. 686,624. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE DoHERrY, a citizenof the United States, residing in Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buckets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a bucket which is so constructed that an ordinary clotheswringer may be applied to it across its top,- whereby a mop may have the water pressed out of it into the bucket by the operation of the wringer. In carrying out my invention I extend two of the staves of the bucket up above the top of the body thereof, such staves being not exactly opposite but on one side of the diameter of the bucket, and with their upwardly-extending portions not formed on an arc of a circle, but flat and parallel with each other. By means of this construction the clothes-wringer can. be extended across the bucket at a point so near to the diameter thereof that the mop will drop into the bucket near its center and none of the water therefrom drop on the outside, and an ordinary wringer may be applied without altering the construction of the bucket.

The nature of the invention in detail is fully described below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a bucket embodying my invention, showing a mop being operated upon by a wringer secured tothe bucket. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing the wringer and mop in end View. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents an ordinary bucket constructed of wooden staves. The two staves B are extended up above the top of the bucket into these extensions are thickened above the upper edge of the bucket and are not formed or set on an arc of a circle, but are parallel with each other, so as to receive evenly the clamps of a wringer.

a a represent the rolls, 1) the springs, and

G the clamps of an ordinary clothes-wringer.

D is the crank, and d the actuating-shaft of the same. The wringer is laid upon the bucket with its rolls a ct side by side horizontally, its springs 12 standing in a vertical position and its clamps O pushed against the vertical edges of the extensions B, which face the larger portion of the bucket. As these extensions are set a little one side of the center of the bucket, the rolls are thus brought over the bucket not far from its center. After the wringer has been placed in this position the screws E are set against the outer flat parallel surfaces of the extensions B and the wringer thus firmly clamped to said extensions. Secured to the outer surface of the bucket at convenient points'on opposite sides thereof. are vertical plates or brackets H, providedwith suitable ears H, between which the inner ends of vertically-swinging plates K are hinged by means of horizontal pins L. These plates K may, when the, bucket is not in use for the purpose named, be folded up against the plates H, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 1. 'When the bucket is to be used for pressing out the water from a mop, the plates K are swung down upon the floor in the manner indicated by full linesin the drawings. The operator stands with his feet uponthese plates K and, grasping the mop-handle P, drops the mop portion P between the rolls a ct and, operating the crank I), draws the mop down into the bucket and then reverses the movement of the crank and draws it up between the rolls out of the wringer. thoroughly without the operator touching any portion thereof but the handle P. The bracket is prevented from any movement during this operation by the pressure of the feet upon the plates K, and the location of the extensions B and wringer prevents any of the water from the mop dropping outside of the bucket. Preferably a metallic angleshaped guard-plateS is secured to the edge of each extension B next the wringer and extends a short distance along the upper edge of the bucket, as shown in Fig. 3, for the purpose of preventing the clamps of the wringer from wearing the edges of the exten- This operation wrings out the mop" its opposite sides fiat and parallel, and being both on one side of a horizontal line extending centrally across the bucket, whereby a wringer may be clamped at its opposite ends to said extensions and be thus secured with its rolls horizontally and approximately centrally across the bucket, substantially as de scribed.

GEORGE DOHERTY.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMs, A. N. BoNNEY. 

